Bibliography of European history

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This is a bibliography of European history focused on some of the main books in English.

Surveys

  • Blum, Jerome et al. The European World (2 vol. 2nd ed. 1970) university textbook; [https://archive.org/details/europeanworldhis0000blum online]
  • Davies, Norman. Europe: A History (1998), advanced university textbook
  • Gay, Peter and R.K. Webb Modern Europe: To 1815 (1973) [https://archive.org/details/moderneurope00gayp online], university textbook
  • Gay, Peter and R.K. Webb Modern Europe: Since 1815 (1973), university textbook
  • Gooch, Brison D. ed. Interpreting European history. 1: From the renaissance to Napoleon (1967) online and Interpreting European history 2: from Metternich to Present (1967). online; readings by scholars
  • McKay, John P. et al. A History of Western Society (13th ed.; 2 vol 2020) 1300 pp; university textbook
  • Moncure, James A. ed. Research Guide to European Historical Biography: 1450–Present (4 vol 1992); 2140 pp; historiographical guide to 200 major political and military leaders
  • Roberts, J.M. The Penguin History of Europe (1998), survey; [https://www.amazon.com/Penguin-History-Europe-J-Roberts/dp/0140265619/ excerpt]
  • Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present (2013), survey, with emphasis on Germany
  • Stearns, Peter, ed. The Encyclopedia of World History (2001); comprehensive global coverage

Geography and atlases

  • Black, Jeremy. A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps (2020)
  • Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.78914 online] 141 maps
  • Catchpole, Brian. Map History of the Modern World (1982)
  • Darby, H. C., and H. Fullard, eds. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 14: Atlas (1970)
  • East, W. Gordon. An Historical Geography of Europe (4th ed. 1950)
  • Haywood, John. Atlas of world history (1997) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=atlas%20world%20history%20haywood online]
  • Horrabin, J.F. An Atlas History of the Second Great War (9 vol 1941–45) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28atlas%20war%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28horrabin%29 7 vol online]
  • Kinder, Hermann and Werner Hilgemann. Anchor Atlas of World History (2 vol. 1978); advanced analytical maps, mostly of Europe
  • O'Brian, Patrick K. Atlas of World History (2007) [https://archive.org/details/atlas-of-world-history/page/n2 Online free]
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511572265|title=An Historical Geography of Europe|year=1990|last1=Pounds|first1=Norman J. G.|isbn=9780521311090|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalgeogra00poun|url-access=registration}}
  • Rand McNally Atlas of World History (1983), maps #76–81. Published in Britain as the Hamlyn Historical Atlas [https://archive.org/details/randmcnallyatlas00 online]
  • Robertson, Charles Grant. An historical atlas of modern Europe from 1789 to 1922 with an historical and explanatory text (1922) [https://archive.org/details/HistoricalAtlas online]
  • Schenk, Frithjof Benjamin, [http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/mental-maps/frithjof-benjamin-schenk-mental-maps-the-cognitive-mapping-of-the-continent-as-an-object-of-research-of-european-history?set_language=en&-C= Mental Maps: The Cognitive Mapping of the Continent as an Object of Research of European History], EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2013, retrieved: 4 March 2020
  • Talbert, Richard J.A. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World for iPad (Princeton UP 2014) {{ISBN|978-1-4008-4876-8}}; 102 interactive color maps from archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire.
  • [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Historical_atlas Historical Atlas] Wikipedia maps; no copyright
  • [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Germany Atlas of Germany] Wikipedia maps; no copyright

Major nations

  • {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-24974-9|title=A History of the British Isles|year=1996|last1=Black|first1=Jeremy|isbn=978-1-349-24976-3}}
  • Carr, Raymond, ed. Spain: A history (2000)
  • Clark, Christopher M. Iron kingdom: the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (2006)
  • Davies, Norman. The Isles: A History (2001), Britain and Ireland
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139019330|title=A Concise History of Italy|year=2013|last1=Duggan|first1=Christopher|isbn=9781139019330}}
  • Fraser, Rebecca. The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History (2006)
  • Holborn, Hajo. vol 1: A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation; vol 2: A History of Modern Germany: 1648-1840; vol 3: A history of modern Germany: 1840–1945 (1959). a standard scholarly survey.
  • Kamen, Henry. A concise history of Spain (1973)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CHOL9780521472999.002|chapter=Introduction|title=The Cambridge History of Scandinavia|pages=1–12|year=2003|last1=Helle|first1=Knut|isbn=9781139053570}}
  • Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford illustrated history of medieval Europe (2001).
  • Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford illustrated history of Italy (1997)
  • Jones, Colin. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1999)
  • Kitchen, Martin The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (1996).
  • Morgan, Kenneth O., ed. The Oxford illustrated history of Britain (1984)
  • New Oxford History of England in 11 volumes (1989–2010)
  • Oxford History of England in 15 volumes (1936–1965)
  • Pelican History of England (1955–1965)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139084710|title=A Concise History of France|year=2013|last1=Price|first1=Roger|isbn=9781139084710}}
  • Riasanovsky, Nicholas V., and Mark D. Steinberg. A History of Russia (2 vol. 2010)
  • Sagarra, Eda. A social history of Germany (2003)
  • Tombs, Robert, The English and their History (2014) advanced history; [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/17/the-english-and-their-history-review-robert-tombs-resounding-importance online review]
  • {{cite book|doi=10.4159/9780674915909|title=Heart of Europe|year=2016|last1=Wilson|first1=Peter H.|isbn=9780674915909}}

Classical

  • Boardman, John, et al. eds. The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World (2nd ed. 2002) 520 pp
  • Boardman, John, et al. eds. The Oxford History of the Roman World (2001)
  • Cartledge, Paul. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (2002)

Late Roman

  • Heather, Peter. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe (Oxford University Press; 2010); 734 pages; Examines the migrations, trade, and other phenomena that shaped a recognizable entity of Europe in the first millennium.
  • Jones, A.H.M. The Later Roman Empire, 284–602: A Social, Economic, and Administrative Survey (2 Vol. 1964)
  • {{Cite book |last1=Laiou |first1=Angeliki E. |author-link=Angeliki Laiou |title=The Byzantine Economy |last2=Morisson |first2=Cécile |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-521-84978-4 |location=Cambridge, England}}
  • Mitchell, Stephen. A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284–641: The Transformation of the Ancient World (2006)

Medieval

  • Davis, R.H.C. A History of Medieval Europe (2nd ed. 2000)
  • Ferguson, Wallace K. Europe in Transition, 1300–1520 (1962)
  • Hanawalt, Barbara. The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History (1999)
  • Holmes, George, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe (2001)
  • Koenigsberger, H.G. Medieval Europe 400–1500 (1987)
  • Riddle, John M. A history of the Middle Ages, 300–1500 (2008)

Early modern

{{Main|Early modern Europe#Further reading}}

  • {{cite book|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198227458.001.0001|title=The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture|year=2002|last1=Blanning|first1=T. C. W.|isbn=9780198227458}}
  • Cameron, Euan. Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (2001)
  • Friedrich, Carl J. The Age of the Baroque, 1610-1660 (1962); Despite the title, this is a wide-ranging Social, cultural, political and diplomatic history of Europe; [https://archive.org/details/ageofbaroque100frie 14-day borrowing copy]
  • Hesmyr, Atle. Scandinavia in the Early Modern Era; From Peasant Revolts and Witch Hunts to Constitution Drafting Yeomen (2014)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9781315837093|title=The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815|year=2014|last1=McKay|first1=Derek|isbn=9781315837093}}
  • Rice, Eugene F. The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559 (2nd ed. 1994) 240 pp
  • Merriman, John. A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present (3rd ed. 2010, 2 vol), 1412 pp [https://archive.org/details/a-history-of-modern-europe-from-the-renaissance-to-the-present-3rd-edition online]
  • Scott, Hamish, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350–1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place (2015).
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199597260.001.0001|title=The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750|year=2015|isbn=9780199597260|editor1-last=Scott|editor1-first=Hamish}}
  • Stoye, John. Europe Unfolding, 1648-1688 (2nd ed. 2000).
  • Te Brake, Wayne. Shaping history: Ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 (U of California Press, 2023).
  • {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9780203425985|title=The Making of Modern Europe, 1648-1780|year=2003|last1=Treasure|first1=Geoffrey|isbn=9780203425985}}
  • Wiesner, Merry E. Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 (3rd ed. 2022)

19th century

{{Further|Bibliography of Napoleon|Revolutions of 1848#Bibliography}}

  • Anderson, M.S. The Ascendancy of Europe: 1815-1914 (3rd ed. 2003)
  • Berger, Stefan, ed. A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789–1914 (2006), 545pp; emphasis on historiography of 32 topics; [https://books.google.com/books?id=80F76LFgBrsC&dq=%27%27A+Companion+to+Nineteenth-Century+Europe%27%27&pg=PR5 online]
  • Blanning, T.C.W. ed. The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789–1914 (Short Oxford History of Europe) (2000) 320 pp
  • Brinton, Crane. A Decade of Revolution, 1789–1799 (1934) [https://archive.org/details/decadeofrevoluti0000brin_z0l4 online] in Langer series on history of Europe.
  • Bruun, Geoffrey. Europe and the French Imperium, 1799–1814 (1938) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.183653 online].
  • Cameron, Rondo. France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800–1914: Conquests of Peace and Seeds of War (1961), wide-ranging economic and business history. [https://archive.org/details/franceeconomicde0000came online]
  • Evans, Richard J. The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 (2016), 934 pp; scholarly survey
  • Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800–1914 (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) (3rd ed. 2003) 544 p
  • Gooch, Brison D. Europe in the nineteenth century; a history (1970) [https://archive.org/details/europeinnineteen00gooc online]
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-4039-3757-5|title=Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe|year=2003|last1=Grab|first1=Alexander|isbn=978-0-333-68275-3}}
  • Kertesz, G.A. ed Documents in the Political History of the European Continent 1815-1939 (1968), 507 pp; several hundred short documents; primary sources
  • Mason, David S. A Concise History of Modern Europe: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity (2011), since 1700
  • Merriman, John, and J.M. Winter, eds. Europe 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire (5 vol. 2006)
  • Ramm, Agatha. Europe in the Nineteenth Century 1789–1905 (1984). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.459856 1950 edition online]
  • Richardson, Hubert N.B. A Dictionary of Napoleon and His Times (1921) online free 489 pp
  • Steinberg, Jonathan. Bismarck: A Life (2011)
  • Salmi, Hannu. 19th Century Europe: A Cultural History (2008).
  • Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918 (1954) online free; Advanced diplomatic history [https://archive.org/details/alanj.taylorthestruggleformasteryineurope184819181 online]
  • Thomson, David. Europe Since Napoleon (1923) 524 pp [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.98593 online]

Since 1900

  • Brose, Eric Dorn. A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (2004) 548 pp
  • Brown, Archie. The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009), global
  • Buchanan, Tom. Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present (Blackwell History of Europe) (2012)
  • Cook, Bernard A. Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia (2 vol; 2001), 1465 pp
  • Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory (2008)
  • Dear, I.C.B. and M.R.D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II (2006)
  • Frank, Matthew. Making Minorities History: Population Transfer in Twentieth-Century Europe (Oxford UP, 2017). 464 pp. [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=52226 online review]
  • Grenville, J.A.S. A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (1994). [https://archive.org/details/historyofworldin00gren online free]
  • Hallock, Stephanie A. The World in the 20th Century: A Thematic Approach (2012)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1515/9781400865598|title=Out of Ashes|year=2015|last1=Jarausch|first1=Konrad H.|isbn=9781400865598}}
  • Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2006)
  • Martel, Gordon, ed. A Companion to Europe, 1900-1950 (2011) 32 essays by scholars; emphasis on historiography
  • Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (2000) 512 pp
  • Merriman, John, and Jay Winter, eds. Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age War and Reconstruction (5 vol. 2006)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511820465|title=Civil War in Europe, 1905–1949|year=2011|last1=Payne|first1=Stanley G.|isbn=9780511820465}}
  • Paxton, Robert O., and Julie Hessler. Europe in the twentieth century (5th edition 2011.
  • Pollard, Sidney, ed. Wealth and Poverty: an Economic History of the 20th Century (1990), 260 pp; global perspective [https://archive.org/details/wealthpovertyeco00poll online free]
  • Sontag, Raymond James. A broken world, 1919–1939 (1972), wide-ranging history of interwar Europe; [https://archive.org/details/brokenworld1919100sont/page/n11 online free to borrow]
  • Stone, Dan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (2015).
  • Ther, Philipp. Europe since 1989: A History (Princeton UP, 2016) excerpt, 440 pp
  • Toynbee, Arnold, ed. Survey Of International Affairs: Hitler's Europe 1939–1946 (1954) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84095 online]
  • Wasserstein, Bernard. Barbarism and civilization: A history of Europe in our time (2007), since 1914 [https://archive.org/details/barbarismciviliz0000wass online]
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511818639|title=A World at Arms|year=2005|last1=Weinberg|first1=Gerhard L.|isbn=9780511818639}}, on World War II

Agriculture and economy

  • {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-9840-6|title=The Western European Loess Belt|year=2009|last1=Bakels|first1=Corrie C.|isbn=978-1-4020-9839-0}}
  • Berend, Iván T. An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe (2013)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511844867|title=Europe|year=2010|last1=Berend|first1=Ivan T.|isbn=9780511844867|s2cid=152558617}}
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511794841|title=The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe|year=2010|isbn=9780511794841|editor1-last=Broadberry|editor1-first=Stephen|editor2-last=Orourke|editor2-first=Kevin H}}
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-94-017-6137-6|title=Land and Labor in Europe in the Twentieth Century|year=1965|last1=Dovring|first1=Folke|last2=Dovring|first2=Karin|isbn=978-94-017-5756-0}}
  • Gras, Norman. A history of agriculture in Europe and America (1925). [https://archive.today/20121205041741/http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=chla;idno=2845579 online ]
  • Kander, Astrid, et al. Power to the People: Energy in Europe Over the Last Five Centuries (Princeton UP, 2013)
  • Milward, Alan S. and S.B. Saul. The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe: 1850–1914 (1977) [https://archive.org/details/developmentofeco0000milw online]
  • Murray, Jacqueline. The First European Agriculture (1970)
  • Pollard, Sidney, ed. Wealth and Poverty: an Economic History of the 20th Century (1990), 260 pp; global perspective [https://archive.org/details/wealthpovertyeco00poll online free]
  • Pounds, N.J.G. An Economic History of Medieval Europe (1994)
  • Slicher van Bath, B.H. The agrarian history of Western Europe, AD 500–1850 (1966)
  • Thorp, William Long. Business Annals: United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China (1926) capsule summary of conditions in each country for each quarter-year 1790–1925 [https://archive.org/details/businessannalsun00thor online]

Diplomacy

  • Albrecht-Carrié, René. A Diplomatic History of Europe Since the Congress of Vienna (1958), 736pp; a basic introduction, 1815–1955 [https://archive.org/details/diplomatichistor0000albr_b4c1 online ]
  • Black, Jeremy. A History of Diplomacy (2011)
  • Black, Jeremy. European International Relations 1648–1815 (2002)}
  • Kertesz, G.A. ed Documents in the Political History of the European Continent 1815-1939 (1968), 507 pp; several hundred short documents
  • Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973), very detailed outline
  • Macmillan, Margaret. The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (2013) cover 1890s to 1914
  • Mowat, R.B. History of European Diplomacy, 1451–1789 (1928) 324 pages
  • Petrie, Charles. Earlier diplomatic history, 1492–1713 (1949), covers all of Europe; [https://web.archive.org/web/20160101023359/http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027344731;view=1up;seq=5 online]
  • Petrie, Charles. Diplomatic History, 1713–1933 (1946), broad summary [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.503129 online]
  • Schroeder, Paul. The Transformation of European Politics 1763–1848 (1994) online; advanced diplomatic history
  • Sontag, Raymond James. European Diplomatic History 1871–1932 (1933) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.503351 online]
  • Steiner, Zara. The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919–1933 (2007)
  • Steiner, Zara. The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933–1939 (2011)
  • Taylor, A.J.P The struggle for mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (1954) [https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.13016 online]

Empires and interactions

  • Bayly, C.A. ed. Atlas of the British Empire (1989). survey by scholars; heavily illustrated
  • Brendon, Piers. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 (2008), wide-ranging survey
  • Cotterell, Arthur. Western Power in Asia: Its Slow Rise and Swift Fall, 1415 – 1999 (2009) popular history; [https://www.amazon.com/Western-Power-Asia-Slow-Swift/dp/0470824891/ excerpt]
  • D'agostino, Anthony. The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars (2012)
  • Darwin, John. After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000 (2008).
  • James, Lawrence. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (1997)
  • Poddar, Prem, and Lars Jensen, eds., A historical companion to postcolonial literatures: Continental Europe and Its Empires (Edinburgh UP, 2008), excerpt also [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b6vw entire text online]
  • {{cite book|doi=10.23943/princeton/9780691147055.001.0001|title=Europe and the Islamic World|year=2012|last1=Tolan|first1=John|last2=Laurens|first2=Henry|last3=Veinstein|first3=Gilles|last4=Esposito|first4=John L.|isbn=9780691147055}}

Ideas and science

  • Heilbron, John L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (2003)
  • Outhwaite, William, and Tom Bottomore, eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought (Blackwell, 1992)
  • Wiener, Philip P. ed. Dictionary of the History of Ideas (5 vol 1973)

Religion

  • Berger, Maurits. A brief history of Islam in Europe: thirteen centuries of creed, conflict and coexistence (Leiden UP, 2014).
  • Forlenza, Rosario. "New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Catholicism." Contemporary European History 28.4 (2019): 581–595 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000146
  • {{cite book |last = González |first = Justo L. |title = The Story of Christianity, Vol. 2: The Reformation to the Present Day |location = San Francisco |publisher = Harper |year = 1985 |isbn = 0-06-063316-6 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/storyofchristian01gonz }}
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (5 vol. 1958–69) vol 1, 2, and 4 for detailed country-by-country coverage
  • MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2011)
  • Vital, David. A people apart. A political history of the Jews in Europe 1789-1939 (Oxford UP, 1999) [https://books.google.com/books?id=vZmSV0c0f5MC&dq=1789+1939+jews+vital&pg=PR14 online]

Social

  • {{cite book|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352333.001.0001|year=2016|isbn=9780199352333|title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice|last1=Knepper|first1=Paul|last2=Johansen|first2=Anja|editor2-first=Anja|editor2-last=Johansen|editor1-first=Paul|editor1-last=Knepper}}
  • Maynes, Mary Jo. Schooling in Western Europe: A social history (1985).
  • Patel, Klaus Kiran, [http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/transnational-history Transnational History], EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2010, retrieved: 4 March 2020
  • {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9781315083247|title=A Social History of Germany 1648-1914|year=2017|last1=Sagarra|first1=Eda|isbn=9781315083247}}
  • Schmale, Wolfgang, [http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/theories-and-methods/transcultural-history/wolfgang-schmale-a-transcultural-history-of-europe-perspectives-history-migration?set_language=en&-C= A Transcultural History of Europe – Perspectives from the History of Migration], EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2010, retrieved: 4 March 2020
  • Stearns, Peter N., ed. Encyclopedia of European Social History (6 vol 2000), 3000 pp comprehensive coverage
  • Stearns, Peter N., and Herrick Chapman. European society in upheaval: social history since 1750 (1975).
  • Tipton, F. and Robert Aldrich. An Economic and Social History of Europe (1987), two volumes
  • {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9781315180793|title=A Social History of Western Europe 1450–1720|year=2017|last1=Watts|first1=Sheldon J.|isbn=9781315180793|s2cid=152533804}}
  • Woolf, Stuart. The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Routledge, 1986)

Warfare

  • Archer, Christon I.; John R. Ferris, Holger H. Herwig. World History of Warfare (2002)
  • Black, Jeremy. Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 onwards (2009)
  • Black, Jeremy M. The Holocaust: History and Memory (2nd ed. 2024)
  • Black, Jeremy. The Great War and the Making of the Modern World (2021)
  • The Cambridge History of the First World War (3 vol 2014) [http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/subject_title_list.jsf?subjectCode=15&heading=Warfare&tSort=title+closed&aSort=author+default_list&ySort=year+default_list online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820160141/http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/subject_title_list.jsf?subjectCode=15&heading=Warfare&tSort=title+closed&aSort=author+default_list&ySort=year+default_list |date=20 August 2016 }}
  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War (3 vol 2015) [http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/subject_title_list.jsf?subjectCode=15&heading=Warfare&tSort=title+closed&aSort=author+default_list&ySort=year+default_list online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820160141/http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/subject_title_list.jsf?subjectCode=15&heading=Warfare&tSort=title+closed&aSort=author+default_list&ySort=year+default_list |date=20 August 2016 }}
  • Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 (1934), general military history [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57902 online free]
  • {{Cite book|editor1-last=Dear|editor1-first=I.C.B. |editor1-link=I. C. B. Dear|editor2-last=Foot|editor2-first=M.R.D.|editor2-link=M. R. D. Foot|year=2001|orig-year=1995|title=The Oxford Companion to World War II|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-860446-4}}
  • Dupuy, R. Ernest, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 BC to the Present (1993)
  • Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela. "The Great War as a Global War: Imperial Conflict and the Reconfiguration of World Order, 1911–1923." Diplomatic History 38.4 (2014): 786–800. [https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/manela/files/diplomatic_history-2014-786-800.pdf online]
  • Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War: 1911–1923 (2014), 12 very wide-ranging essays by scholars. [https://www.amazon.com/Empires-War-1911-1923-Greater-dp-0198702515/dp/0198702515/ excerpt]
  • Goldsworthy, Adrian, and John Keegan. Roman Warfare (2000)
  • Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (4 vol. 1990)
  • Horne, John, ed. A Companion to World War I (2012)
  • Keegan, John. A History of Warfare (1994) [https://archive.org/details/historyofwarfare00keeg online]
  • Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1989) [https://archive.org/details/risefallofgreatp00kenn online]
  • Muehlbauer, Matthew S., and David J. Ulbrich, eds. The Routledge History of Global War and Society (Routledge, 2018)
  • Paret, Peter, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy (1986), ideas of warfare
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1093/actrade/9780199590964.001.0001|title=The Napoleonic Wars|year=2013|last1=Rapport|first1=Mike|isbn=9780199590964}}
  • Sharman, Jason C. "Myths of military revolution: European expansion and Eurocentrism." European Journal of International Relations 24.3 (2018): 491-513 [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1354066117719992 online]
  • Stevenson, David. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy (2004) major reinterpretation, 560pp
  • Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004): a major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914–16; 1245pp
  • {{Cite book|last=Weinberg|first=Gerhard L. |year=2005|title=A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II|edition=2nd}}; comprehensive overview with emphasis on diplomacy
  • Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005), topical essays;
  • Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost (2nd ed 2020). The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-52161-633-1}}
  • Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. (Yale University Press, 2006)
  • Winter, Jay, ed. (2014). The Cambridge History of the First World War (2 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Zeiler, Thomas W. and Daniel M. DuBois, eds. A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2013), 1030 pp; comprehensive overview by scholars

Women and gender

  • Anderson, Bonnie S. and Judith P. Zinsser. A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present (2nd ed 2000)
  • Bridenthal, Renate, et al. eds. Becoming Visible: Women in European History (3rd ed. 1997), 608 pp; essays by scholars
  • Frey, Linda, Marsha Frey, Joanne Schneider. Women in Western European History: A Select Chronological, Geographical, and Topical Bibliography (1982)
  • Hufton, Olwen. The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500–1800 (1996)
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511997075|title=Sexuality in Europe|year=2011|last1=Herzog|first1=Dagmar|isbn=9780511997075}}
  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1353/jowh.0.0131|title=Surveying European Women's History since the Millenium: A Comparative Review|journal=Journal of Women's History|volume=22|pages=154–177|year=2010|last1=Offen, Karen |s2cid=145632281}}
  • {{cite book|doi=10.5040/9781350001688|title=Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe|year=2016|last1=Sanborn|first1=Joshua A.|last2=Timm|first2=Annette F.|isbn=9781350001688}}
  • Pal, Carol. "Women and Institutions in Early Modern Europe: Making Space for Female Scholarship." in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy (Routledge, 2023) pp. 13–28.
  • {{cite book|doi=10.1017/9781108683524|title=Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe|year=2019|last1=Wiesner-Hanks|first1=Merry E.|isbn=9781108683524|s2cid=165898969}}

Historiography

  • Anderson, Benjamin, and Mirela Ivanova, eds. Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline?: Toward a Critical Historiography (Penn State Press, 2023).
  • Antonelli, Roberto. Ideas of Europe: Time, Space, and Tradition (Taylor & Francis, 2023).
  • Bavaj, Riccardo: [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0159-2011112107 "The West": A Conceptual Exploration ], European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2011,
  • Berger, Stefan. “The Past and Present of European Historiography: Between Marginalization and Functionalization?” in Eurocentrism in European History and Memory, edited by Marjet Brolsma et al., (Amsterdam UP, 2019), pp. 25–42. [https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr7f5v5.5 online]
  • Berghahn, Volker, and Simone Lässig, eds. Biography between structure and agency: Central European lives in international historiography (Berghahn Books, 2022).
  • Black, Jeremy M. The Holocaust: History and Memory (2nd ed. 2024)
  • Fleming, Katherine E. "Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan historiography." American Historical Review 105.4 (2000): 1218–1233. [https://doi.org/10.2307/2651410 online]
  • Geraldo, Joseph, and Michael Etnan. "Eurocentric Historiography: An Analysis of International Politics in the 21st Century and Its Effect on Changes in Historiography of Countries in Europe." International Journal of Science and Society 5.1 (2023): 1–12. [https://ijsoc.goacademica.com/index.php/ijsoc/article/download/620/577 online]
  • Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard, and Jürgen Kocka, eds. Comparative and transnational history: Central European approaches and new perspectives (Berghahn Books, 2022).
  • Hroch, Miroslav. Comparative studies in modern European history: nation, nationalism, social change (Taylor & Francis, 2023) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wlm-EAAAQBAJ&dq=Historiography+of+Europe+European&pg=PP12 online].
  • Iggers, George. New Directions in European Historiography (Wesleyan University Press, 1975)
  • Mazower, Mark. "Changing Trends in the Historiography of Postwar Europe, East and West." International Labor and Working-Class History 58 (2000): 275–282. [https://library.fes.de/libalt/journals/swetsfulltext/14895173.pdf online]
  • Mishkova, Diana, and Balázs Trencsény, eds. European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History (2017) [https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/63374/1/external_content.pdf#page=1 online]
  • Porciana, Haria, and Lutz Raphael, eds. Atlas of European Historiography: The Making of a Profession 1800-2005 ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) uses 80 maps to show how historians studied Europe.
  • Pincince, John. "Jerry Bentley World History, and the Decline of the 'West'" Journal of World History 25#4 (2014), pp. 631–43, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/43818468 online].
  • Steinmetz, Willibald, Michael Freeden, and Javier Fernández-Sebastián, eds. Conceptual history in the European space (Berghahn Books, 2022).

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